Re: Jetico Personal Firewall

From: destined (clearmesupercommodore_at_mail.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:28:26 -0700

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:53:50 GMT, Kerodo
<kerodonospamkenny@hotmail.com> wrote:

>fontdump1@yahoo.com (Gath Graves) wrote in
>news:8fc042e1.0408210135.33e1c20c@posting.google.com:
>
>> Just tried it out, Jetico is a great company in Finland, so I was
>> optimistic. First off, yes, there is a 262K executable but there is a
>> fwsrv service that consumes 7MB. That's certainly fine as norton, etc
>> consumes at least 12MB. Jetico PFW detected all windows services
>> connecting back to local machine, but then it crashed after I tried to
>> dial up with the firewall UI open. It appears to be unable to deal
>> with NAT also. I blue screened win2000 SP4 several times there. I
>> didn't even get to a state where I could run leak tests... In general
>> it seems to have some race condition bugs so I would pronounce this
>> beta useless for me, sorry.
>
>Sorry to hear that.. I don't know anything about NAT, so that doesn't
>concern me here. I'm just running Win2k with a cable connection etc. No
>network. Jetico seems to work fine for me here.
>
>As far as resource consumption, it seems pretty good compared to others.
>I've seen some such as Sygate consume as much as 22 megs of ram. Kerio 4
>is also pretty high.

I have seen Zone Alarm, and other free firewalls take up MEGS of Ram..
But my Sygate Personal Firewall only takes up about 5 megs of ram on
my machine.. Now it's not Sygate's IDS/Full install Firewall which
could be a windows RAM hogger..

Jeremy <<supercommodoreatmaildotcom>>

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